My first thought when it was announced last week that white supremacist and terrorist Brenton Tarrant had been charged with committing an act of terrorism was how the media’s agreed self-censorship of their coverage will impact the trial.
Sean Plunket’s Working Group with Bomber Bradbury & Damien Grant: THIS WEEK: Coalition party, It’s ok to be white t shirts, Relaxation of debt to GDP ratio, Bullying in Parliament, David Seymour vs Golriz
There is a story behind the Herald’s Paywall suggesting that Alfred’s Anti-Abortion Angels might consider cutting A deal with Brian Bishop’s Bad Boys. I think that’s what it says because I don’t have a paywall subscription and while I prayed to god to part the Paywall, he didn’t.
The debate over Prisoners being able to vote has begun in the Waitangi Tribunal as argument is heard that the ban is a breach of the Treaty because it is so disproportionately unfair to Māori.
Just when you thought The People’s Budget hosted by Bryan Bruce and with panelists Rod Oram, Sue Bradford, Russel Norman, Efeso Collins, Professor Jane Kelsey and Julia Whaipooti was a great way to debate if neoliberal economics can build a well being budget, news tonight that NZer of the Year, Dr Lance O’Sullivan will also be joining the panel.
No other show has managed to imprint the way GoT has culturally. It permeates social media and popular culture in a unique way that manages to slot effortlessly into the multi narrative world social media now provides.
Comrades – are you sick of neoliberal economics ruining our changes of a truly transformative progressive economy?
Me too!
Here’s what Bryan Bruce and a I have been working on, The People’s Budget 2019…
Sean Plunket’s Working Group with Bomber Bradbury & Damien Grant: Ngaro in Botany, Christchurch call, Police admission on social media watchlist, Game of Thrones Finale, Water Issues
If you have the privilege of a platform, you must endeavour to use that platform for good. I have written previous columns about the extraordinary abuse of power by the state when they take children into their ‘care’.
Let’s get this straight, Paula Bennett is such a coward, that she refused to appear on a TV panel with Chloe Swarbrick to debate cannabis reform?